 Your kids' reputation, how they're treated at school matters. This is just one aspect of the world where these people live, where they work, where they worship, where they drive. We lose sight of the societal pressures, the social shame system that surrounds these D.C. justices. They're rock solid. You put them on the bench and they just crumble before our eyes and we look around and say, what happened? Well, Washington, D.C. is what happened.